It brings Opel to the US car market, and that’s what keeps it alive. On the plus side, here’s the new Buick Verano GS, which you might get at some point.

That’s a parking sensor. Putting it onto a textured piece of plastic makes it much less obvious than it would be if it was on a smooth bit. Sensible work, IMO.

For the purposes of Touristfahrten the Nurburgring is a derestricted toll road, subject to German traffic law. That’s why you can drive on it with a convertible without a roll bar, or a fully loaded coach.

This picture I think shows us what Fiat have done to make the 124. Here’s a photo of the Miata from a similar angle:

I would like to see a direct comparison with the new Miata, both in terms of spec and visually.

There’s very little nouveau about the Nouveau Riche.

Ferrari got rid of manuals because the typical new Ferrari buyer doesn’t use it for ripping up Tuscan roads at 5am on a crisp autumn Sunday. They use it for crawling through the streets of Knightsbridge (or LA, or Dubai, or wherever) at 3mph so that everyone can see that the owner is driving a Ferrari. Manuals are…

This is true - everyone in Italy drives like they’re at Monza. I was once in a minibus climbing up a mountain pass (it was being driven by an Italian so we weren’t hanging about) and was overtaken by a classic Fiat 500 being driven by a young lady who was in the middle of doing her makeup.

I once cooked the brakes on an MGB following a car down a steep hill which was travelling at an inappropriate speed for engine braking (about 32mph I believe, a bit too fast for second, and too slow for third).

I love Porsche’s thinking there. The GT3 will be manual and normally aspirated, and likely the least complicated car in the 911 range. Yet it will be priced nearly 50% above the base model.

Considering it’s nearly powerful enough to haul the plane vertically into the sky. I expect that with the brakes on the wheels it would very easily pull the nose into the ground if you ran the engine up any other way.

Interstingly Bisto is suitable for vegetarians, as it has no meat in it. It works out as a fairly healthy alternative to real gravy too.

They seriously should have made that guy change his name. It’s really confusing.

The thing is, not being very good at visual range engagements means that it’s limited to BVR engagement, so it’s as good a fighter as this:

SPECTRE was released here in the UK this week. I’m reasonably certain you’ll have a new favourite next week.

Ssangyong. Even their name is gopping.

I think they’ve probably “de-Londonified” it a little bit to try and make it a success in other markets - although the old cab was way ahead of its time in terms of wheelchair accessibility, the fact that it wouldn’t go south of the river was quite a handicap since the river is 51 degrees north of the equator. That…

No Rovers have been manufactured since 2005.